I understand that more than I understand this disproportionately huge ass fad. It’s gross. All I can think when I see photos of women like Kim K., or like her friend in the above photo (who clearly has had implants/silicone), is that they look like they must poop a lot. It’s just bizarre in a way that the obsession with being thin/emaciated isn’t.

People who think twerking is ghetto still thought it was ghetto when Miley did it. If you remember, there was a lot of backlash when she did it. And if you want to get down to the appropriation brass tacks if it, if we’re really going to get appropriated sand in our vaginas, white people appropriated twerking from black culture that appropriated it from gay culture. Also, this isn’t the fifties, you shouldn’t refer to musical artists as having a ‘black sound’, that is actual racism, whereas nontraditional culture appropriation (which IMO isn’t really appropriation) is not.

That lyric mentioned here, and by Banks is the opposite of racism. She is saying she is running away from the parts of our heritage/culture that were racist or involved with slavery. She’s a ‘runaway slave master’ meaning she’s white, but rejecting that part of the history of white people. People see the words ‘runaway slave’ or ‘slave master’, but when you put all three words together it’s an entirely different meaning.

Banks didn’t make any valid points. First, no one race or culture owns hip-hop or any other musical genre. Second, Iggy not speaking out about Ferguson is irrelevant, has nothing to do with artistic integrity, and Banks’s comment about Iggy being a culture-appropriating racist was petty and desperate. Iggy not publicly commenting about Ferguson is hardly proof that she wasn’t appalled at the whole situation (though even if she weren’t, that’s her right, and it wouldn’t mean she’s a racist). In fact, I’m guessing she didn’t comment because people like Banks would have accused her of using the controversy to insert herself into black culture (ie more appropriation). And lastly, Iggy’s lyric about being a ‘runaway slave master’ is a play on words meaning she has disowned the part of her heritage/culture that owned slaves or supported slavery. It’s a figurative way of saying she is rejecting the racism and slavery that was (and still is) associated with white American history, she is running away from being a slave master.

I know this is a few months old, but jesus christ you’re a miserable twat. Stores giving customers an incentive to bring their own reusable bags is fucking awesome, it’s good for the environment and saves both the customer and the company money.

Freedom of speech does not include freedom from consequences of speech in the public sector. It’s fine if they want to be terrible people who are intolerant, but they are actively seeking to deny a huge segment of the population the same rights they already have, and that’s not ok, and it has nothing to do with religious freedom or free speech. Also, being intolerant if intolerance is not the same thing as just being intolerant.

Every accused rapist is given their day in court. Rape is such a disgustingly underreported and under-prosecuted crime, and the percentage of rape accusations that turn out to be false is so statistically insignificant, that the preoccupation with false rape accusations by people not directly associated with the investigation is absurd.

1. It’s actually more like 1-2% of rape accusations are false.
2. No one is advocating any of the stuff you’re talking about.
3. All rape accusations deserve to be taken seriously and investigated properly, if the accusations are found to be false, the person accused is exonerated and the person making the false accusation is punished both criminally and civilly. That’s the way it works when any crime is committed/when any person is accused of a crime. Rape allegations are no different and should not be treated differently.

Oh please, spare us. The tradition of tattooing, and the difference between traditional and modern tattoo styles/techniques is largely irrelevant to the vast majority of people who get tattoos these days. It’s absolutely irrelevant for a list like this. Tattoos are mainstream.

Nope. If you’re having a discussion about linguistics, then it’s okay to refer to regional/class based/social dialects, but in general if you’re asking or discussing what language someone speaks, ‘Mexican’ or ‘American’ is inappropriate. Also, ‘American’, ‘Mexican’, and ‘British’ aren’t dialects, Ozark English, Cockney, and Northern Mexican Spanish, are examples of dialects from each of those countries.

What’s absurd, is that she the audacity to call what she does ‘art’. It’s not. And before anyone tries to make some bullshit comment about rap/hip-hop being art, I agree that it can be art, but that doesn’t mean all of it is, and what Nicki Minaj does, absolutely is not.

Well, actually she didn’t lie. She doesn’t have to explain anything, and not explaining to people she doesn’t even know is not tantamount to lying. And since when was the code of plastic surgery that you have to tell everyone everywhere you go? You, avagirl97, are the one being a coward, attacking someone’s looks on the internet.

I don’t know if it’s a private school or not, but if it’s not, or if it receives federal or state funding/tax breaks or exemptions, then they should have allowed them to film there if they’ve allowed other productions to film there. So long as they’re not filming sexually explicit scenes, I don’t think the school’s refusal is justifiable.

What’s profane about a gay couple? It’s not like they were trying to film a sex scene at the school. If the school would hypothetically allow other film makers to film at the school, or has in the past, there is no justifiable reason to not allow this production to film there. This ‘don’t shove (or in your nonsensical vernacular ‘dive’) your beliefs down people’s throat’ excuse is bullshit, gay people have just as much right to exist and express themselves as anyone else.

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